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Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...ut $2,000 to $3,000. "This study should encourage families to be a bit more willing to wait to have their child undergo surgery," said Perrin. Other doctors say the new findings will likely lead to discussions about re-evaluating current guidelines. "It may be reasonable to delay ear tube surgery in some ...

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

...nada and colleagues report on five members of two families with a rare form of hereditary gastric cancer cau...we are learning about gastric cancer in these rare families might provide clues about how gastric cancer starts and therefore might help in the future, for exam...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...od which allows doctors to give patients and their families more accurate information about their chances of recovery. This new method is based on brain scanning using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a stroke assessment test and the number of hours between the onset of the stroke and the MRI to determine t...

Eating disorders are hereditary

...ity to get the illness". During the research the families of 323 women between 18 and 28 who had any type of eating disorder were analyzed, to compare with other group of 181 healthy women, so it was found that bulimia was four times more frequent among the relatives of the first group. And the number multi...

Genetic influence in menopause

...ve collected data from 243 non-twin sisters in 118 families already participating in a breast cancer screening project.// They also collected data from twin sisters. They found that the age of reaching menopause is 85-87 per cent down to genetic factors in non-twins, and 70 to 71 per cent genetic in twins. ...

FDA's control is inherently weak

...erian drug trial sponsored by Pfizer Inc., and the families of 30 children who participated in the study have filed suit against Pfizer in New York. The FDA is unable to ensure that trial participants in those countries receive the same level of protection as those in the United States. The FDA has little ...

Allergies are related to mothers' menses

...e development of the child. The study of Finnish families was based on measurements taken more than 30 years ago. More than 4,740 pregnant women had been asked about the age at which they began menstruating. More recently, their their children in thirties were given allergy tests against types of grasses an...

Genetic disorder related with sleep patterns

...Dr Louis Ptacek, say they found 34 people in three families who suffered from the disorder. In one family, a grandmother, daughter and grandchild all had the disorder which is not the same as simply finding it difficult to stay in bed in the morning. Scientists hope that by studying the syndrome they may be...

Sex exploitation connected to Schizophrenia

...we says those suffering from the disease and their families will be damaged by the study. According to Crowe more research needs to be done to find out the true cause of schizophrenia. Fred tthought that childhood trauma can cause changes to the brain that affect its ability to handle stress. According to h...

Down syndrome life anticipation doubles

...f people with Down syndrome are important to us as families but it's also socially important," said Jill O'Connor. "We now have a whole generation of children who have grown up at home and will become a generation of older people with Down syndrome." "This is something that as a society we need to provide su...

DNA of deceased ones stored in Funeral Homes

...at he does not advocate cloning. ``I have several families that have stored DNA with that in mind,'' Naegele ...tory to do some diagnostic testing. About a dozen families have stored DNA at the laboratory through D'Esopo since the home began offering the service three mo...

Boys reduced mother's life expectancy

..., having sons cut mothers' lives short, looking at families 250 years back. They felt that the pattern might still be seen in developing countries today. The team from Toronto looked at church records// for the Sanu people, who lived in Scandinavia between the 18th and 20th centuries. The Sanu depended on r...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

... the genetic samples and medical histories from 17 families with the syndrome, has discovered that changes in ...rect line of communication. The study involved 17 families in the United States, the Netherlands, Norway and Turkey, and 100 additional people. Scientists susp...

Osteoporosis and kidney stones gene marker identified

...andles calcium. For the study, researchers studied families with a history of kidney stones and compared their genetic profiles with those of healthy people. They found six different mutations in the same gene and having at least one of these was found to increase the risk of having AH by two to three times a...

SARS impact could be devastating

...year to their families. Studies show most of those families used the remittances for consumption buying cars and building new houses directly improving standards of living// and boosting their local economies. Among the throng of migrating laborers, an estimated 210,000 Thais left home to work abroad in 2000,...

Scientists push to lower hidden sodium in food

...rocessed food and restaurant meals. Time-crunched families depend on the convenience of processed foods, so the American Public Health Association, backed by dozens of other health and medical groups, issued a challenge to the industry: Cut in half the sodium in those foods over the next 10 years. Sodium is...

'Designer' baby for British couple

...e world just to save the sibling's life. These are families who want a healthy child, and if that healthy child can also save the life of the child they already have, I think it is a double blessing. It is still not certain that Jamie can help his brother. The new born baby is currently undergoing blood test...

HDL - Key to Longevity

...e over age 98 and their children. They found these families have significantly larger HDL and LDL particle sizes. The sizes of the particles were not dependent on the levels of lipoproteins in the blood. In addition to living longer, these people have generally been spared from age-related diseases such as c...

Key to Long Life

...e over age 98 and their children. They found these families have significantly larger HDL and LDL particle sizes. The sizes of the particles were not dependent on the levels of lipoproteins in the blood. In addition to living longer, these people have generally been spared from age-related diseases such as c...

Sudden Cardiac Death due to inherited Heart Disease

...old. Researchers say they found one in four of the families were diagnosed with inherited heart disease. Speci...ac system or heart-muscle abnormalities. In those families diagnosed with inherited heart disease, there had been significantly more sudden cardiac deaths amon...

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